Whirlwind Bible History To open this 3-Day study, we’re gonna’ do some whirlwind Biblical history. You ready? Let’s start at the beginning. The Trinity. Our God is “us.” He’s three, and yet he’s the shamah—our God is ONE. As the Old Testament unfolds, we see many glimpses of our Trinitarian God acting within the story, but none quite so clear as in the very moments when all of humanity rebels the most. For example, in the days of Samuel, all the people came to Samuel, and started complaining about the leadership style of their “unseen,” Triune-but-One God. They asked for a good-looking “visible” King to rule them. They wanted what all the other nations had. Samuel relents, and the people get their King—Saul; though God clearly demonstrates his sadness at their request in 1 Samuel 15. Nonetheless, even in light of humanities’ treachery, God remained faithful. In his extraordinary wisdom he brought about Samuel to anoint a new King. At the time, Samuel was known as a prophet, priest, and as a judge (their equivalent to a king at that time). Samuel was ONE man, and yet operated in THREE offices—prophet, priest, and king. God was going to preserve his Trinitarian image on earth despite human rebellion. Though the people wanted one “Senior Leader” (not a good thing, p.s.) God continued to lead his nation via a Triune/Multiplicity leadership model of Prophets, Priests and Kings. Each of these offices, to some degree reflects how each member in the Trinity interacts and relates in community and completion. This carried all the way through into the ministry Jesus, where he united, once again, all three of those offices together in Himself as the ultimate Prophet (Mt. 17), Priest (Heb. 4:14-16), and King (Mt. 21:1-11). The New Testament remains consistent in exalting Jesus as ONE, and yet under the Father’s will, and by the power of the Holy Spirit, Jesus works his ONENESS nature out in the MULTIPLICITESS nature of a church body with many gifts. We even see a shadow of the Trinity in the Triune offices of the New Testament in the Elder, Deacon, Deaconess (Trinitarian) model of leadership. What does this have to do with Artistic Community you ask? Well, thanks for asking. We’ll get to it in Day 2. For now, we want you to read through a few passages concerning the...

Our Jesus, experienced the full spectrum of human experience and emotion while on earth. If we are to truly become “Christ-like,” we too are going to have to be equipped for all that life may bring. I believe it is the Psalms that prepare us with such a “strength of soul.” Each day in this study, we will ask you to explore a particular genre of poetic writing in the Psalms. We will ask for you to fellowship with the Lord in prayer...

Our Jesus, experienced the full spectrum of human experience and emotion while on earth. If we are to truly become “Christ-like,” we too are going to have to be equipped for all that life may bring. I believe it is the Psalms that prepare us with such a “strength of soul.” Each day in this study, we will ask you to explore a particular genre of poetic writing in the Psalms. We will ask for you to fellowship with the Lord in prayer...

Our Jesus, experienced the full spectrum of human experience and emotion while on earth. If we are to truly become “Christ-like,” we too are going to have to be equipped for all that life may bring. I believe it is the Psalms that prepare us with such a “strength of soul.” Each day in this study, we will ask you to explore a particular genre of poetic writing in the Psalms. We will ask for you to fellowship with the Lord in prayer...

Meals as Mission In the first three centuries, largely up until the time that Constantine politicalized Christianity as the state religion, the whole of the Christian worship service (the gathering) was referred to as “the Lord’s Supper.” It wasn’t a wafer and a sip from a plastic throwaway cup that was in Paul’s mind in 1 Corinthians 10:17–34, when he spoke of the Supper. The context of Paul’s argument in 1 Corinthians clearly is...

Meals as Church Planting Movements In response to Peter’s Pentecost sermon, over 3,000 people were added to the church and immediately, we see the church begin to organize. Pay attention. Do they organize into buildings? Do they form doctrinal statements? Did they immediately raise money or start a campaign? Read the account in Acts: And they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of...

Meals as the Visual Kingdom In Luke’s account of the Last Supper, he refers to two distinct cups that are used, a detail that is unique to him. We know that the tradition of the Jews was to take 4 cups at the Passover: one for blessing, one for explanation of meal’s meaning, one for the meal proper, and one for the conclusion. But why two cups here? Jesus stands before His disciples and paints a new kingdom inaugurated by a raised...

Meals as a Model for Ministry Theologians have noted in Luke’s Gospel that there is not a moment where Jesus is not going to, at a, or coming from a meal. The sinners who knew Jesus, met Him as a “friend of sinners” at meals, and Jesus’ enemies were always at odds over the fact that He kept eating with sinners. The famous historian and doctor Luke keeps alive the rhythm of meals and their symbol as blessing or curse. Jesus used meals...

Blessing and Cursing In Luke 14:15–24 Jesus describes a banquet scene. In the parable, a man goes out and invites many guests to his feast, but they all decline the invitation, citing a variety of excuses, but the main reason being that they are too busy. When word of their declined RSVP reaches the man’s ears through his servant, he becomes angry. In response, he commissions his servant to go out and invite the poor, the crippled,...

Meals as Historical Turning Points Let’s give a short synopsis of how Scripture’s storyline and historical turning points are built around meals: God’s blessing began in the garden with a meal (Gen. 1:29). God gave Adam and Eve a choice to eat of blessing or curse, symbolized in the Tree of Life and Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. The curse, fall of mankind, and Satan’s temptation happened over a meal (Gen. 2:16–17). The first...

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